It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Ruth Ozeki
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they... →
Cynthia Ozick
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
Charles Palliser
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I... →
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Sara Paretsky
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
Louise Penny
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
Tom Perrotta
I don't write a novel every two years.
Jayne Anne Phillips